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The most important thing for a puppy is the first year of his life. During this period, formed its backbone and teeth, woolen cover. All of this depends on how he eats. Not quality not adequate nutrition can lead to rickets, mednarodnemu, and section the hair. What you will not be able to fully give it in the first year of life, in the future it will be impossible to fill.

For each feeding the puppy should be individualized.

Even being born in one litter, each puppy has their preferences in food. Obeying their own desires, they intuitively try to fill in the missing elements. Very often start to bite, it would seem, not edible things – cement, plaster, chalk – this usually happens when you lack calcium in your body. The amount of food consumed might depend on the weather conditions, nature and mobility of the puppy, its individual metabolism.

Puppies from six weeks to two months usually fed five or six times a day, with age, the number of feedings decreased, and a portion of the increase. With two months puppies are fed five times, four with four, with six or seven months, move on to three meals a day, starting with year, dog fed twice a day. As soon as the puppy ate, Continue reading →

Today’s selection of fluffy news devoted to the most unusual Pets in the world. Most of us gets home for cats, dogs, hamsters, parrots or fish. But not these people.

It is good that cows don’t fly. And then this family would have brought such a pet. Limited to only flying squirrel. Usually these cuties people pick up in the woods quite a bit, because children often fall out of nests, and, unfortunately, most of them perishing in the clutches of predators. But the squirrel named lucky Pickles. Not only that, she survived and became a General favorite, so still and lives in a huge house where so much place to fly!

And in this house lives like that red-haired bastard, who was named Ron-Ron. Agree that the behavior of the Fox is something like cat: entered business, received a portion of love and affection, and went back out on his animal. It is noteworthy that Eric is the name of the owner, knowingly purchased Ron Ron a breeder of exotic animals from Oklahoma. The man maintains a separate blog dedicated to foxes. In it he warns that the content of such an animal requires a certain amount of effort but some sacrifices on the part of the owners.

While the American farmer Bob savelogin useful pet. Just imagine: a man comes back late at night, say, from the Conservatory. It runs unknown in a mask and menacingly yells: “trick or treat?” Bob whispers in awe: “Money in my pocket…”. The attacker tries to get them and is struck with a secret weapon – a skunk named Sweet William. Continue reading →

This section is devoted to amphibians, reptiles and exotic Pets . In our enlightened age Pets lovers of exotic fauna are often a variety of reptiles (reptiles) and amphibians (amphibians). It could be frogs or lizards, turtles, snakes, iguanas, monitor lizards and even crocodiles. Of course, the selection of such animals, there are some nuances, because the representatives of different species are very different from each other in character, manner of behavior, degrees of aggressiveness, depending on gender and age. In addition, animals must be adapted to life in captivity, in order to tolerate the limited space. Therefore, experienced experts recommend to buy exotic Pets and all necessary only after consultation with a professional designer-zoologist. This not only competently and comfortably equipped “residence” their unusual Pets, but also successfully fit the fragment exotic fauna practically in any interior.

As a rule, for the content of any amphibians and reptiles requires a specially designed container — a terrarium. Since any terrarium always remains artificially created and artificially maintained ecosystem, the owner must provide maximum comfort to your pet and bring his activity to life in a natural environment. In accordance with the requirements of zoologists, errorimage be equipped with light sources and UV rays, temperature maintenance, temperature control, ventilation, water provision and maintaining humidity. Source: amphibians reptiles exotics Continue reading →

How I wish that all wishes always coincide with the possibilities! Common example: a family member is very fond of cats, as other members of the household, but suffer from allergies. Is to stroke a furry pet, as he starts to sneeze and suffer from runny nose and even covered with red spots.

Blame the substance that produces the cat was on him so violently react with allergies.

But some breeds of cats produce minimum amount of harmful protein so that anyone can keep at home such a pet.

Here is a short list of animals that do not cause allergic reactions.

Balinese cat

Known as the “Balinese” or “long-haired Siamese.” Despite its rich coat, allergies can contact her. If it will cause a nasty reaction, it is minimal.

Oriental Shorthair

The distinguishing feature of this pet – increased cleanliness. Get ready to take care of her!

Javanese cat

Another name – avant. Do not have undercoat, and the cover is their average length. Continue reading →

An international team of scientists analyzed genetic data of modern dogs based on the assessment of the remains found all over the world, and found that modern breeds genetically have little in common with their ancestors.

Dogs were the first domesticated animals and the researchers say that their findings eventually lead to the understanding of the origin of dogs and the development of early human civilizations.

Despite the fact that many modern breeds have a form similar to the form of dogs depicted in ancient books or the Egyptian pyramids, mixed breeding, which lasted thousands of years, suggests that it is wrong to call any of the modern breeds “ancient”, the researchers said.

The study showed that because of mixed breeding such breeds as the Akita inu, Afghan hound and Chinese Shar-Pei, called “ancient”, not closer to the first domesticated dogs than any other dog breeds.

Other effects, affecting the genetic diversity of domestic dogs include the footprint of human actions and strong influence on the size of the dog population events such as two World Wars, the researchers added. Continue reading →